VIA PRESS RELEASE | On November, 13 Chrysalis Records will release a brand new Midge Ure best-of collection Chapters: The Best Of 2026, showcasing music he created in the eighties. This follows his recently acclaimed new studio album A Man Of Two Worlds, released earlier this year.
Midge Ure’s remarkable life in music kicked off from the moment he arrived in London from his native Glasgow, in 1977. Initially, he joined Glenn Matlock’s Rich Kids, and the following year, he and Rich Kids’ drummer Rusty Egan formed Visage with Steve Strange. The lineup was completed by John McGeoch, Barry Adamson, and Dave Formula from Magazine, and Ultravox Keyboardist Billy Currie. Their second single, “Fade To Grey,” was a Top 10 hit.
In 1979 Midge Ure joined Thin Lizzy on a US tour, replacing Gary Moore and in 1980 he would co-write “Yellow Pearl” with Phil Lynott, which eventually became the Top of The Pops theme tune. The same year Billy Currie invited Midge to join Ultravox. What followed was six successful years in which the band scored two Top 3 and seven Top 20 singles, and two Top 5 and three Top 10 albums.
Throughout the 1980s, in addition to his work with Ultravox and co-writing and organizing Band Aid and Live Aid with Bob Geldof, Ure also released several successful solo albums, including the number 2 album The Gift, which featured the number 1 single, “If I Was.” The collection also features collaborations with the likes of Kate Bush on “Sister And Brother” and former Japan member Mick Karn on “After A Fashion.”
In addition to many classic Midge Ure solo tracks, the 3CD Deluxe Edition consists of the new stereo mixes and for the first time, newly recorded studio versions of Visage’s “Fade To Grey” and Phil Lynott’s “Yellow Pearl.” CD 1 contains seventeen tracks, including two bonus tracks not on the standard version. CD 2 consists of ten newly commissioned remixes by artists and producers who have worked with Midge over the years, such as soundtrack composer Craig Armstrong, Richard Barbieri and Steve Jansen (Japan), Wolfgang Flür (Kraftwerk), Chris Payne (Visage/Gary Numan) amongst others. CD 3 consists of new Instrumental mixes of all seventeen tracks from CD1.
The set will be available on a Double LP Black Vinyl, a CD Standard Edition, a 3 CD Deluxe Edition and Super Deluxe Edition to exclusively release a Blu-Ray Atmos Mix of the compilation and a hand-pressed edition of the 2 LP on Splatter Vinyl.
